Modernity, Culture and 'The Jew'

by Homi K. Bhabha and Bryan Cheyette

Book Overview

This book provides a rich and wide-ranging analysis of Jewishhistory and culture, relating them to theories of modernity andpostmodernity and to recent debates on ethnicity andpostcolonialism. Issues addressed include psychoanalysis andgender, literary anti-semitism, (post)modernity and 'the Jew', andthe memory of the Holocaust. A Foreword by Homi Bhabha and anAfterword by Paul Gilroy place these concerns in an extendedmulticultural and postcolonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745620418
• ISBN13: 9780745620411
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"